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Big Lottery Funds Innovative Research on Enzyme Disorders

Patients being treated for the disorder do not have enough of the enzyme, homogentisic acid oxidase, which causes acid to build up in the body. Some of this…

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Norway Launches Regional Research Funds to Boost Innovation

The regional research funds are intended to bolster Norway's research capacity and quality by promoting research, innovation and development efforts at the…

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Establishing research relationships from Paris to Almaty – "incrEAST" web portal launched to aid co-operation

Co-operations of this kind are not ends in themselves, but rather an important prerequisite to, for example, addressing global issues that are becoming…

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European Cooperation on Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

The Euratom Framework Programme has supported research in this field for many years and this is continuing in the current 7 th Framework Programme. Today over…

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Penn State Secures $13.2M for Nanoscale Science Center

“The goal of the Center is to design and create new materials with unprecedented properties and functions, starting with nanometer-scale building blocks,” says…

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Broad Institute Secures $15M Grant for Epigenomics Research

The five-year, ~$15M grant, part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, designates the institute as one of four Reference Epigenome Mapping Centers…

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Million-Dollar Boost for Severe Asthma Research Initiative

The donation will be used for the development of a new research programme: The Bernard Osher Initiative for Research on Severe Asthma at Karolinska Institutet….

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NWO Enhances Innovational Research Incentives Scheme

NWO is modifying the Veni, Vidi and Vici subsidy programmes. More money will be made available to top researchers. Subsidies will be larger, there will be more…

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Nine Dutch Researchers Win European ERC Advanced Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the first results for the Advanced Grant competition. Nine of the 105 winners are employed at a Dutch…

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100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis: Impact of the Haber-Bosch Process

As a result of the Haber–Bosch process for the synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, billions of people have been fed, millions have died in armed…

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ESA Trains Future Atmospheric Scientists at Oxford Course

ESA’s Advanced Atmospheric Training Course, held 15–20 September at University of Oxford, UK, brought 50 students from 23 different countries together with…

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EU-Funded Health Research: Life Competence Insights Revealed

The data has been generated from an online webbased database of competences, supported through an EU specific support action.The project has been implemented…

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Fraunhofer SCAI and LIFE Biosystems Partner in Text Mining

LIFE Biosystems GmbH announced today that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Department of Bioinformatics at the Fraunhofer Institute for…

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KSU Expands Food Safety Education With Distance Learning

“The distance courses are designed for distance students and for any on-campus students who want to take them,” said Kelly Getty, an assistant professor in…

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Balancing Agendas: Challenges in School Reform Efforts

Despite investments, community goodwill and some good ideas, a vexing question remains in the age of school reform: Why has so much hope and effort led to…

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MUHC and McGill Secure Record CFI Research Grant

Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, and Dr. Arthur T. Porter, Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the McGill…

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